Abstract
Strategies for single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) separation are critical to developing nanotubes as useful nanoscale building blocks. Herein, diameter-selective dispersion of HiPco single-walled carbon nanotubes has been accomplished through noncovalent complexation of the nondestructive nanotubes with a flexible porphyrinic polypeptide bearing 16 porphyrin units [P(H 2P)16] in DMF at 298 K. Supramolecular formation occurs through wrapping of peptidic backbone in P(H2P)16 and π-π interaction between porphyrins and nanotubes to extract the large-diameter nanotubes (ca. 1.3 nm) as revealed by ultraviolet-visible-near- infrared and Raman spectroscopy as well as high-resolution transmission electron micropscopy. The photoexcitation of the Supramolecular complex affords the long-lived charge-separated state.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1194-1199 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Physical Chemistry C |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 25 Jan 2007 |